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By Wilson Rothman A 26-year-old employee was shot today during a "violent armed robbery" of the Clarendon Apple Store in Arlington, Virginia. Video news report embedded below—details at Cult of Mac. [Cult of Mac via BBG]

By Woz We're kicking off our series exploring memorable gadgets from memorable people with one most influential tech giants: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. – JC I always wanted my own computer. With the Apple I, I now had a machine that I could program. I would never run out of things to do in my e...

By Mark Wilson So is Apple addressing a real overheating problem or are they simply publishing reasonable operational guidelines? Our thoughts: Years after the original iPhone's release seems a bit late (and thereby a bit too coincidental) to start passing along pretty standard electronic operat...

By Jesus Diaz The problems for Apple are clear. By setting itself up as a guardian of the store, Apple can't win. Any time a controversial application is approved, or non-allowed elements are snuck into an application post-approval, Apple is blamed. If these apps are pulled ahead of time, Apple is called...

By Mark Wilson Unwired View uncovered three new iPhone patents that promise to turn everything from calling grandma on her birthday to turning off your phone in a movie theater into gloriously mindless activities. I'll take it all, Apple. Thanks. [Unwired View]

By John Herrman A superquick recap: Psystar releases the OpenMac, a $400 desktop Mac clone; people debate if this is possible, technically or legally, and if Psystar is a scam; the hackintoshes turn out to be real; they ship; Apple gets upset; Psystar grandstands; Apple continues to be upset; Psystar g...

By John Herrman Video editing on iPhone 3GS wont overwrite the clip over the original when you are editing a clip. iPhone will now vibrate whenever you switch to the mode where you can move and arrange icons on the iPhone home screen. iPhone boot time is now faster.

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By Mark Wilson Featuring a fully articulating head, the Zgrip has mounts for an optional LED fill light and higher quality stereo audio recorder. Even with these options, however, it's far too expensive given that there's no true image stabilization going on beyond an easier way to hold the iPhone. If th...

By Jason Chen No detail on this, but reader AJ has a lame joke to go along with this submission: Q: How does Geek Squad fix Macs? A: They drop 'em off at their local Apple store. Thanks AJ!]

By Wilson Rothman Both models also allow connectivity to portable devices, such as USB memory sticks, as well as iPods and Bluetooth-enabled devices (including cell phones, PCs or Macs) via optional accessories (Yamaha YDS-11, MSRP $99.95, and Yamaha YBA-10, MSRP $129.95, respectively).

By Jason Chen Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Apple have all agreed to use the microUSB standard in their phones made for the European market. Why can't we have that? No idea. We're surprised that Apple is getting in on this agreement, though, and we're wondering if th...

By Jason Chen Save yourself some wasted effort by checking on iPhone 3GS availability online first before you get in your car and head down to the store. There's no such centralized interface for AT&T, so who knows how many they have. For a place that sells phones, they sure don't like to answer them al...

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By Jason Chen There have been lots of Steve Jobs sightings at Apple last week, but it's finally official that he's back at work. Steve Jobs is back to work. He is at Apple a few days a week and working from home the other days," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said. "We're glad to have him back."

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By Jack Loftus Here's the critical point, the reason why we're delaying our version of the jailbreak: Once the jailbreak is out, Apple will fix the iBoot-family bug we use to accomplish it. They will simply stop signing the old iBoots and only sign the fixed ones. If you bought your phone after Apple has don...

By John Herrman •Say Goodbye To the Hottest Girls iPhone App •First Apple-Approved iPhone Porn App •iPhone Remote App Now Supports Apple TV Controlling With Gestures •AT&T Wants You to Pay $10 a Month for Their iPhone GPS Navigator •iPhone AIM and Beejive IM Apps With Push Notifications Are Live

By Jason Chen Not that there's much to take away from this, but just take a look at your white iPhone 3GS. If it looks like the photos here, then you have a problem. Or you've been eating cotton candy and you need to wipe your hands first before checking your email. [Nowhereelse via Engadget]

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By Mark Wilson It's by no means the most timely report, but apparently Apple actually has a less profitable margin on the Mac Mini than much of their other hardware, according to iSuppli, as the base Mac Mini ($599) costs $387.14 to build. 14.25 (Apple spends more money on the Mini's power adapter than its RA...

By John Herrman To their credit, Apple addressed complaints about a downgraded, slower SATA interface on their new MacBook Pros fairly quickly. Unfortunately, that hasty firmware update seems to be causing much more serious problems. For example! Not recognizing common hard drives.

By John Herrman There are two possibilities here: either the 3GS development and manufacturing schedule is longer and more rigid than the iPod Touch 2G's (the Dev Team says its bootrom was "cut" in August of 2008, before the 24kpwn exploit was identified) or, more compellingly, Apple just doesn't real...

By Dan Nosowitz The ONE is designed to work with Apple's range of audio software, including iTunes, Garage Band, Logic, and Final Cut, though we don't imagine it would have trouble working with non-Apple software as well. It remains to be seen whether the built-in mic is everything Apogee claims; on such...

By Jesus Diaz For this reason we were all hoping for a matte back in the iPhone 3GS, but apparently Apple decided not to release it for one reason or the other. I don't know and I don't care. What I do care about is that, after playing with the Hero, my iPhone now feels like cheap crap. And I don't even like Android.

By Mark Wilson He gutted an old Nikon point and shoot for its tripod screw mount, then glued it to one of those cup holder iPhone bases that you find in automotive accessories. The result is an iPhone tripod that requires no modification to the phone's body itself, which is pretty handy if you're anything l...

By Mark Wilson Let's check to see if jailbreaking or unlocking an iPhone makes sense for you by explaining what they actually mean: Jailbreaking allows you to load non-iTunes, third-party apps like these onto the phone, at your own risk. Unlocking lets you use another company's SIM card (for T-Mobile o...

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By Jason Chen Hope you got in on the Naked girls iPhone App while you had the chance. Apple just removed it from the US store. Hit the gallery for a taste of what you missed. [iTunes (in case you wanted to verify for yourself, or if you're in another country)]

By Jason Chen The iPhone 3.0 version of the Remote app now supports Apple TV controls with gesturing, which should give you a lot more flexibility than the standard little Apple Remote you already have. Techcrunch says it's incredibly improved, as you can now just slide around on the phone to move around...

By Bill Nye Well, the polymer that the 3GS iPhone screen is coated with doesn't let the oil of your skin stick to it very much. So, you don't leave fingerprints. The key is in the intermediate compounds, the silanes that hold the plastic to the glass.

By Dan Nosowitz A native Gmail app would allow for gestures, offline reading, and quicker access, but Google just keeps improving the iPhone-optimized mobile Gmail site instead. With iPhone 3.0, they've added swiping gestures within the iPhone's browser.

By Jason Chen Apple's official product page listed the device as "iPhone 3G S" since the launch. Hell, the URL even had a space in it (http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g-s/). But now? All iPhone 3GS. So yeah, we're glad we stuck with the 3GS (no space) from the beginning. We're also glad Apple finally ca...

By Mark Wilson If Apple won't do it, maybe it's time for us to celebrate the potential of another company's multitouch laptops. Because Lenovo's worldwide product marketing manager Franciso Carias revealed that the company is considering building multitouch screens into their Thinkpads and creat...

By Adam Frucci We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. It's called the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7. Check it:

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By Sean Fallon If you are the person responsible for supplying the office with Dunkin' Donuts products, prepare to have your mind blown. Dunkin' Donuts new "Dunkin' Run" iPhone app is going to change your life forever. Hear that? It's everyone in Boston cheering and weeping with happiness. [iTunes and Du...

By Mark Wilson Note that it took 74 days for the first million iPhones to sell, 3 days for the first million iPhone 3Gs to sell and just another 3 days for the first million iPhone 3GSs to sell. That puts the early pace of the iPhone 3G and 3GS at a close tie. Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models

By Jack Loftus Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We've reviewed C64 1.0 and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it violates the iPhone SDK Agreement; "3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any...

By Jack Loftus Apple can't say that in their I'm a Mac ads, can they? But Microsoft can, now that Stealth Computer contends users could throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at their WPC-500F PC and it'd come out unscathed. Actually, throw the thing in the sink and it'd be fine too, because it's 10...

By Dan Nosowitz Since Apple hasn't given us a comprehensive list of all the little changes in iPhone 3.0, users have taken it upon themselves to compile the treats they've found in the new software, some of which are actually quite nice. • Our iPhone 3.0 Review • The Complete Guide to iPhone 3.0

By John Herrman • First iPhone App with In-App Purchasing: $1 App, $10 Per Month • Sirius/XM iPhone App Is Now Live (Also) • TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review • Ngmoco's Xbox Live-esque iPhone Service Set to Launch Tomorrow • 94 God-Awful iPhone Apps Designed in MS Paint

By Adam Frucci Do you want an iPhone but wish it ran Android instead of Apple's mobile OS? No? Well, too bad, because Meizu might be bringing Android to its M8 iPhone clone. Android on an iPhone clone? I guess stranger things have come out of China (and this probably isn't even coming out of China), but it jus...

By Mark Wilson With the iPhone 3.0 firmware, Apple upped the max number of app pages on the iPhone from 9 to 11. Theoretically, that increased the number of apps the iPhone could support to 180. Theoretically. Though let us be the first to say it: If you have more than 180 apps on your iPhone, it's time to do some h...

By Jesus Diaz I just got my iPhone this morning at the Apple Store in Valley Fair (San Jose, CA) and Steve Wozniak was there. I arrived at 3:50am and Mr. Woz was chopping it up with the manager at Apple. Then around 4:30am he politely asked everyone in line if he could be the 1st to get his iPhone at the store and ev...

By Jesus Diaz • If you don't need the unlock but want to upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0, go ahead. After upgrading, jailbreak your iPhone with PwnageTool 3.0, and keep using Cydia and your non-official iPhone apps. • If you have an iPhone 3GS, this won't work for you, so don't even try it.

By John Herrman AT&T-style HSDPA is expected to reach out to an eventual theoretical speed of 14Mbps, which will undoubtedly make the current 3G networks feel slow, but won't necessarily blow them out of the water. That's the thing: the iPhone, and indeed just about all high-end handsets on the mark...

By Jesus Diaz Why are these people waiting in line for the iPhone 3GS? It's the same iPhone but faster, there will be plenty available in stores everywhere, and you won't be any cooler for having it now because...

By Adam Frucci Update: The developer wrote in to explain that the per minute pricing was accidentally left in after the QA process and should be removed in an imminent update. Here's their full explanation. [The Apple Blog]

By John Herrman MovieIQ pulls everything from cast lists and crew info to soundtrack data and production trivia from the Sony-owned Gracenote video database—a name that might sound familiar, since it's also one of the biggest CD databases in the world, and the one the iTunes uses to identify and name yo...

By Mark Wilson If you're picking up a 3GS and like to buy a warranty, Apple will extend coverage to two years for $69. It's good for if/when the phone spontaneously combusts without human intervention. But what about just dropping the thing? SquareTrade warranties state that should you break your iPhone...

By Jesus Diaz The intensity of the vibration MyPleasure could use for this app is obviously limited by the amount of vibration that the iPhone offers, so the orgasmic potential of the MyVibe app is similarly limited. However, orgasms—while fun—aren't everything.

By Jason Chen It could be the fact that the iPhone has been available for two years, or the fact that the iPhone is available in 3000 countries to the Palm Pre's one, but Google Trends shows much more interest in Apple's device. We take that for granted, but your mom or your neighbor is an order of magnitude m...

By Jesus Diaz Oh Installer, Installer, we had so much fun together, you and I. When Apple didn't have any iPhone app store, and whenever Apple blocked some essential iPhone apps, you were always there. And now... now you are dead like Zed. But fear not, my young apprentices, because we still have Cydia and Icy,...

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By John Herrman It's miles from conclusive, and CNET's certainty and enthusiasm are easy to mock, but I like this. Jesus sees Apple's tablet as a bigger, more powerful iPod Touch, running some variant of iPhone OS—an solid theory, since you could argue that iPhone OS is Apple's touch version of OS X—but I'...

By John Herrman Not even a day has passed since its release, and yet here we are, already dishing out iffy techniques for enabling unauthorized tethering and MMSing with iPhone OS 3.0. Here are two of them: • Visit a website on your iPhone and download a new carrier profile • TETHER!

By Wilson Rothman It's time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean "it"—do this time around? Have a look-see...

By Dan Nosowitz iPhone 3.0's new parental controls allow you to specify the age of the user, from 4+ to 17+, and offer warnings about apps Apple thinks its users might find objectionable. Oddly, one such app is apparently Shazam, the great multi-platform app that identifies songs picked up by the iPhone's...

By Wilson Rothman Known Pre Issues • Tethering? Maybe not • iTunes syncing could go away • Hooray for homebrew! • How's that reception? • Screen scratchy? Heat distortion? Apple iPhone 3GS Reviews • Our Review • What other reviewers are saying • iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide

By matt buchanan Don't get us wrong, we love that Apple brought many of the Pro hallmarks down to their consumer machines, like the aluminum chassis, and that now high-end Apple laptops are more affordable than ever. But now real pros probably won't even look at most of the Pro line.

By Jesus Diaz There are also rumors about ypdates to the Apple Cinema Displays—moving everything to LED backlighting—and the iPod touch—which also needs to be updated, probably reaching the 64GB mark in the same way the iPhone will be doubling its capacity (the iPhone has one NAND RAM chip inside for...

By Dan Nosowitz An app store could deliver loads of new features to the Apple TV, from games to news to other digital video services (like Hulu), and could really exploit the under-used combination of Apple TV and iPhone. It'd be the best of both worlds, with the flexibility of Boxee and the security of the i...

By Jesus Diaz Apparently, several Apple users are reporting in forums that the screen in the unibody MacBooks has been quietly upgraded to MacBook Air standards, offering noticeably better quality than older units. It all started last April.

By matt buchanan Mac users are still exposed to a Java vulnerability that's been public for 6 months after Apple neglected to patch it in the recent honking 10.5.7 update. Okay Windows guys, point and laugh. But if you want to be super safe, you should turn off Java in your browser, no matter what platform you're...

By John Herrman In 2008, a loose-lipped German Intel executive let slip that Apple may be working on an Atom-based unit, which he referred to as a "version of the iPhone." This odd outburst was quickly minimized, but was soon followed by a full-throated alert from MacDailyNews that an OS X-equipped MacBo...

By Dan Nosowitz Laptop Magazine finds several flaws with Consumer Reports' findings, the most important of which is a total lack of transparency: How in the world did they arrive at these ratings? For example, the MacBook Air shows a performance rating of "Good," but what does that mean? The Air isn't ex...

By Dan Nosowitz We should note, of course, that this survey does not include satisfaction with the wireless service provider at all, which we suspect would have brought the iPhone's scores down to Earth. But at the moment, the iPhone seems to be top dog. [JD Power via CNET]

By John Mahoney • Paul van Dyk Pitches You the Paul van Dyk iPhone App • Apple Hits One Billion Apps • Apple Apologizes for Approving Baby Shaker iPhone Game • Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Preview • iPhone 3.0 Will Have "Jibbler" Voice Controls, Talk Back to You Like iPod Shuffle

By Jesus Diaz A new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—labeled 10A335—has hit developers. Apple hasn't mentioned any new features or bug fixes, however. The Server version—which was released alongside—does come with an easier to use version of Podcast Producer, new spam mail filters in Mail Server,...

By Dan Nosowitz In a survey of customer satisfaction, the computer industry as a whole scored pretty badly, with Apple the marginal best out of a not-so-thrilling bunch. The worst sector, however, was ISPs, which seem universally loathed. None of the hardware manufacturers came close to the top, howeve...

By Brian Lam Time Capsule is $500 for a 1TB and $300 for 500GB of storage. That's not a ton of storage for high-end machines these days, and multiple machines will almost certainly require the 1TB setup if you want to keep a moderately detailed history of your computers' data changes. As you'd expect from...

By Jason Chen This new iPod shuffle is about half the volume of the previous iPod shuffle. HALF. By moving all the controls from the face onto the headphone cable, Apple was able to reduce the width and thickness to almost 50%, even if the length grew slightly. This wasn't totally sensible: Although the hea...

By Jesus Diaz I like the idea of having controls on my headset's cable. I use that feature every time with my iPhone. However, I've owned every single iPod, iPod mini, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle ever made—advantages of being a journalist and getting evaluation units—and every one of the Apple headphone...

By Jesus Diaz If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and...

By Wilson Rothman Xbench test results Geekbench test results In real world testing, I made further discoveries of the iMac's pre-eminence among its Mac peers. Ripping a 26-track CD in iTunes took just 3 minutes and 50 seconds on the iMac, while it took nearly 10 minutes (OK, 9:45) on the Mini with 2GB of RAM.

By Wilson Rothman The Mac Mini is the greatest Mac that never was, always just a little too expensive and/or a little too underfeatured to be perfect. This time it's closer than ever to perfection—but still falls short. Quake 4 Demo Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM vs 2009 iMac Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM vs 2009 iMac

By Jason Chen The iPhone 2.2.1 update just hit, and it promises to fix various Safari, Mail and Camera bugs. It applies to iPhone and iPhone 3G (no iPod Touch yet iPod Touch's update seems like it's here too),...

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By Jason Chen It applies to iPhone and iPhone 3G (no iPod Touch yet iPod Touch's update seems like it's here too), and doesn't seem like it introduces new features. We're installing and looking into it for more info. The update is 245.7 MB, in case you're on dial-up at your grandma's house.

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By Jesus Diaz Right before the Macworld keynote, Jobs confirmed the problems in an open letter to the Apple community. He said that his doctors thought they got to the bottom of his health problems—a hormonal imbalance—and he recently had begun treatment to resolve the situation. He also said he would r...

By matt buchanan Brian actually loaned his personal MSI Wind Hackintosh for the Giz Gallery. It seems more likely that Apple is actually sending Wired a cease-and-desist rather than asking for money—telling them to pull the tutorial, which explicitly lays out step by step how to put OS X on a netbook, incl...

By Mark Wilson It's simply not a seamless or fulfilling enough experience to represent the nation's largest brick-and-mortar movie rental chain, and it's certainly not good enough to impress us when Netflix, Apple TV and Vudu are all doing it better. With a few aggressive firmware updates and the righ...

By Wilson Rothman Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers....Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple...

By Adrian Covert As far as remote capabilities go, I tested the Apple In-ear headphones with an iPhone 3G and a first gen iPod touch (neither of which are officially supported. As Apple claims, the audio works fine with both devices. Neither the remote or the mic work with the iPod touch 1G at all, merely reduc...

By Mark Wilson We already knew that the latest iPod touch featured the fastest processing of its siblings (a 532MHz-clocked processor vs 412MHz on the original iPhone, the original iPod touch and even the new iPod 3G). But we were surprised to hear from software developers that the latest iPod touch can...

By Jesus Diaz iTunes and App Store • App store reorganization: The UI has been sightly reorganized and polished. The categories, for example, now display bigger and with icons. As I speculated in our iPhone 2.2 rumor round-up, the icons shown seem to show the top free application. Fixes

By Elaine Chow For all you Apple TV users out there, Apple's now released firmware version 2.3. The patch, downloadable through the media hub's built in updater, now lets users stream music from AirTunes to any speakers connected to an Airport Express or other Apple TVs in the house. You'll also get the abi...

By Jesus Diaz Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting.

By Jason Chen The takeaway from these charts is that yes, there really is a difference between the MacBook and MacBook Pro in terms of graphical capability. The two benchmarks we used before, GeekBench and XBench, do a poor job of utilizing the graphics card. Whether that's because the benchmarks are tw...

By matt buchanan The Apple Tax is a popular term for people who believe Macs are overpriced. It's usually screamed at the top of lungs (or the blog-commenter equivalent), but it's rarely been dissected. The truth about the Apple Tax is straightforward on one level—you will pay more for the same specs on a Mac...

By matt buchanan In the case of Macs vs PCs, you could argue that customer support, the Leopard OS and design elements such as the new unibody construction and glass trackpads are what make up the Apple Tax. The only problem with this logic is that, when you compare Apple computers alone with no PCs in sight, t...

By John Mahoney New Pics Surface of Anonymous Apple Laptop (Apple Pro - Taiwan): TRUE Rumor: New MacBook and MacBook Pro Will Look Like Air + iMac (Appleinsider): TRUE. With a little bit of iPhone thrown in for good measure, we would add, but that's definitely the gist.

By Elaine Chow Looks like its Update Day at Apple—the company just released Apple TV 2.2, which users can access through the “update software” menu option in Settings. The software revamp now includes support for features introduced in iTunes 8.0, including video playlists, Genius playlists and HDTV s...

By matt buchanan Unlike their usual tack lately, Apple is doing something at the App Store that actually helps developers. Before, you could review—and slam—any app you wanted willy-nilly, even if you didn't own it. That changed over the weekend—now you have to own an app before you can review it, preventi...

By John Mahoney At the "Let's Rock" event this week, Apple pushed the new iPod touch hard as a viable gaming platform. Steve even went so far as to call it the best portable gaming platform out there. Strong words for DS and PSP fans, but the crop of games popping up in the App Store continues to build steam. This w...

By Brian Lam So the hardware is interesting in the iPhone 3G, but the real story here is the new iPhone OS 2.0 firmware, which we've written about in depth here. You manage to install that, iPhone users, you've got about 80% of this new iPhone's new mojo. But if you're not making your calls on an iPhone yet, we...

By Adrian Covert How Costly Can Mac Support Be?: Even if the number of potential Mac users who would buy Zune products is minuscule, how expensive can it be to code an app? There have been far smaller companies who have supported both platforms, and Microsoft has other Mac apps, so what gives?

By matt buchanan The problem with fanboys is that it's never enough—no matter how breathlessly one lauds a gadget, pointing out the smallest of flaws inevitably triggers a tidal wave of email accusing you of sucking the competition's teat (or worse). Mossberg calls it "The Doctrine of Insufficient Adul...

By Jason Chen Just like Apple TV 1.0, it's a fantastic way for people to get their iTunes-purchased movies, music and TV shows from their computers onto their living room TVs. What's even better—the "mass appeal," if you like—about version 2.0 is that it doesn't require a computer to function. People can p...

By Wilson Rothman Apple Announces Mac OS X Server Leopard CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today announced that Mac OS(R) X Server version 10.5 Leopard will go on sale on Friday, October 26, at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard. Leopard Server extends Apple's legendary ease of use,...

By Jason Chen 100 doesn't go a long way in Apple land. It can get you a keyboard and 3/5 of a mouse. It can you get an iPod shuffle and almost an entire set of spare headphones. It will buy you 5/6 of a Bluetooth headset. And this is just the cheapest items. Most people will use this $100 on something more expensive, l...

By Jason Chen Steve Jobs and Apple announced the $100 Store Credit "rebate" for all iPhone owners that were eager enough to buy an iPhone when it first came out. The early adopters had enough faith in the company to buy early, even though it cost a good $500/$600. It's a great gesture, in theory, but let's an...

By Jason Chen Pash over at Lifehacker has a tutorial up on how to install third-party applications to your iPhone. It's notable because it comes straight from our iPhone Book, along with many more tips and tricks that you won't find in other books (seriously, we've read the other books, and they don't ha...

By Mark Wilson Today, as our two most expensive units battle, marks the close of our first round of iPod Dock Battlemodo. First, we have the $349 Apple Hi-Fi. It's the Chosen System, blessed by the hands of Steve Jobs himself. And while it's late on the scene, that allowed Apple a chance to learn from the mista...

By Wilson Rothman People have been talking about the "hidden cost" of iPhone, that is, the monthly fee that will be required to do all of the fun webby things iPhone can do (YouTube video being just one of them). But it's so well hidden, nobody yet knows what the cost is. Our Continuing iPhone Coverage [Gizmodo]

By Brian Lam iLounge: LC Angell and gang are Apple Journo vets. That shows through in these two nice articles, in top 10 form, listing geek factoids and reasons why you don't need an AppleTV. Concise, and topped with a nice Live Sizemodo-ish Gallery of AppleTV with an iPod and Mac Mini. Did I mention those b...

By Noah Robischon Having played with Apple TV, it's easy enough to agree with what Mossy and Pogue have already told you: This device works very well if you don't mind that your entire digital media experience has to remain inside Apple's walled garden. And iLounge has offered 10 pretty convincing reasons w...

By Noah Robischon that it doesn't come with cables, and that it only works on widescreens. These crits are minor, and I don't mind that iTunes has to be running while I use the Apple TV either—I leave it on much of the time anyhow. The real flaws that I see in Apple TV are, like many of its best attributes, more compl...

Here we go again. We've barely finished wiping the drool from our mouth after this month's Macworld Expo and already the internets are rumbling with news that Apple is planning another event in February to announce further details on their new Leopard OS. LoopRumors is claiming we could se...

2) Ask the operator for Gene (like denim) Teluse, VP of Customer Care. She is Apple's highest ranking customer service agent, and she reports directly to Steve Jobs. 3) Leave a nice message, include any Apple Case/Repair numbers you might have, or your machine's serial number, and a callba...

By Jason Chen 1) Call Apple Corporate: 408-996-1010) 3) Leave a nice message, include any Apple Case/Repair numbers you might have, or your machine's serial number, and a callback number. 5) Calmly explain your story, and what you want Apple to do.